Objective To study the effects of edaravone on the lung injury of severe acute pancreatitis （SAP） in rats. Methods Thirty-six SD rats were randomly divided into three groups: normal control group, model group and edaravone group, and SAP was induced by intraductal administration of 5% sodium taurocholate. Edaravone was given in edaravone group, while normal saline was given in normal control group and model group. After operation 6 h rats were executed, and dry/wet weight (D/W) ratio of lung was counted, and malondialdehyde (MDA) content, superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity in serum and lung were detected, respectively. In addition, the levels of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin-1, -6 (IL-1, -6) of serum were detected.Results The MDA contentof serum and lung and the levels of TNF-α, IL-1, IL-6 in model group were markedly higher than those in normal control group and edaravone group, but D/W ratio of lung, SOD activity of serum and lung were significantly lower (Plt;0.05). Conclusion Edaravone can alleviate lung injury of rats caused by SAP.
ObjectiveTo study the effects of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) on proliferation of human rectal cancer cell in vitro. MethodsThe experiment was divided into control group,rhGH group,Oxaliplatin (LOHP) group and rhGH+LOHP group. The double proliferation time of cells,cell inhibition rate,cell cycle, proliferation index (PI) and DNA inhibition rate of human rectal cancer line,HR8348,were studied by cell culture, MTT assay and flow cytometry on different concentration of rhGH. ResultsIn vitro the markedly accelerated effects of rhGH on multiplication of HR8348 cell line were not found: there was no statistical significance as compared rhGH group with control group or compared rhGH+LOHP group and LOHP group （Pgt;0.05）. The double proliferation time of cells was markedly lengthened, cell inhibition rate and the cells arrested in G0-G1 phase were obviously increased, meanwhile, the cells in S phase （P＜0.05） and G2-M phase and PI were markedly decreased and DNA inhibition rate was obviously risen as compared rhGH+LOHP group with control group or rhGH+LOHP group and rhGH group （P＜0.01）.ConclusionIn vitro rhGH does not accelerate the multiplication of human rectal cancer cells.
Skin aging principles play important roles in skin disease diagnosis, the evaluation of skin cosmetic effect, forensic identification and age identification in sports competition, etc. This paper proposes a new method to evaluate the skin aging objectively and quantitatively by skin texture area. Firstly, the enlarged skin image was acquired. Then, the skin texture image was segmented by using the iterative threshold method, and the skin ridge image was extracted according to the watershed algorithm. Finally, the skin ridge areas of the skin texture were extracted. The experiment data showed that the average areas of skin ridges, of both men and women, had a good correlation with age (the correlation coefficient r of male was 0.938, and the correlation coefficient r of female was 0.922), and skin texture area and age regression curve showed that the skin texture area increased with age. Therefore, it is effective to evaluate skin aging objectively by the new method presented in this paper.